Future Jobs Fund

I spent most of this morning until well after lunch time interviewing prospective candidates to work at our centre under the terms of the Future Jobs Fund. This is a government scheme which pays unemployed young people, aged 18-24, to do 25 hours a week in a six-month work experience placement. Nationally, The Salvation Army [...]

Facebook good, Facebook bad

It’s fairly well-known that I love technology, enjoy the benefits it gives us, and I enjoy using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, although I am a recent convert to Twitter and still not really all that sure about the point of “microblogging.” Still, that’s for another time. Occasionally, I have reason to [...]

Something profound to say

For some reason I feel challenged to write here again, although I am not sure I have very much to say. I am in the middle of writing a literature review for my MA, and am taking some of the writings of Jürgen Moltmann as my subject. I am thoroughly enjoying the subject, although finding [...]